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- by Jakedaawg
- Fri Oct 13, 2017 10:20 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: Dynasty software revisions/updates
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1119
Dynasty software revisions/updates
Well, I bought a 280dx last November. I was on the Miller webpage the other day and noticed there is a newer software version you can download and put in the welder. Question is whether I should? My thinking is that it works perfect for me as is. I don't update my phones any more as I seem to have t...
- by Jakedaawg
- Sun Oct 08, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: How to TIG this flex coupler to exhaust pipe?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3511
Re: How to TIG this flex coupler to exhaust pipe?
It looks like the ring on the flex is to slip inside of an existing pipe. I have never used the stuff so take the comment as being worth nothing.
- by Jakedaawg
- Sat Sep 23, 2017 8:25 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
- Replies: 3253
- Views: 491861
Re: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
@5th Street Fab
Just out of curiosity, are the long runs that you do done with mig? Do you use both processes?
Just out of curiosity, are the long runs that you do done with mig? Do you use both processes?
- by Jakedaawg
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 9:27 pm
- Forum: Stick Welding/Arc Welding - Shielded Metal Arc Welding
- Topic: Irma
- Replies: 2
- Views: 954
Re: Irma
I store my motor home in Big Pine Key. I fear I am going to have to pop for a boat registration for it. Thank god its fully insured. My buddy's home near by seems to have faired fairly well from drone pics. We have not got there yet. A bunch of missing shingles and someones mobile home in the front ...
- by Jakedaawg
- Wed Sep 13, 2017 8:58 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: What's up with this?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1724
Re: What's up with this?
Not that I can offer any help, but for learning purposes could you post a pic of the post grind issue you speak of?
- by Jakedaawg
- Sat Sep 02, 2017 10:32 am
- Forum: Welding Projects - Welding project Ideas - Welding project plans
- Topic: Wood furnace repair
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1236
Wood furnace repair
20170831_183002.jpg So, I'll try and post some pics of the cracks. This is a USSC 1300 hotblast. Pretty basic stove. Plate steel. Got some cracks. Planning on grinding out and drilling. Question I have is what process not to use. I really don't think this is a big deal. I am thinking just using mug...
- by Jakedaawg
- Mon Aug 28, 2017 9:11 am
- Forum: Mig and Flux Core - gas metal arc welding & flux cored arc welding
- Topic: Please talk about 'Inductance" and "run-in"
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1411
Please talk about 'Inductance" and "run-in"
Note-I started a similar thread at WW. So, I have the little Lincoln 210 mp. It has an inductance and run-in settings. I have used this to machine to fix a lot of things on our plows and trucks. For the worry worts be sure that nothing I do will effect anyones safety...no trailer hitch balls or any ...
- by Jakedaawg
- Tue Jun 06, 2017 9:01 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: PITA Cast Iron Repair
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3539
Re: PITA Cast Iron Repair
exnailpounder Please forgive the stupid question I am about to ask. Why, in the first place, would someone want to try to repair a merc manifold? They are ~$250 brand new and you dont need to worry about any internal cracks that you can not see? I can understand trying if it was your own time or you...
- by Jakedaawg
- Thu Jun 01, 2017 8:52 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
- Replies: 3253
- Views: 491861
Re: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
That weave in the first pic is sick, but what is the purpose of the inner weave? Is it for appearances or does it serve a purpose?
- by Jakedaawg
- Mon May 08, 2017 8:40 pm
- Forum: Welding Forum General Shop Talk
- Topic: Welding helmet for tight spaces
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2123
Re: Welding helmet for tight spaces
I like it so far. The hood is way to tight for a normal head. Maybe I just have a large head.
- by Jakedaawg
- Sun May 07, 2017 11:54 am
- Forum: Video Discussion
- Topic: Series on Tig Aluminum part 2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1527
Re: Series on Tig Aluminum part 2
I believe that another interesting area of TIG welding aluminum would be a section on overhead and out-of-position welding. Maybe some tips or tricks you have gathered over the years when forced to lay on your back or side and fill a hole in a pontoon or what not.
- by Jakedaawg
- Thu May 04, 2017 9:06 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: Weldtec i head ball joint VS CK Flex loc (water cooled)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6900
Re: Weldtec i head ball joint VS CK Flex loc (water cooled)
So, can you order just the torch and handle for the flex lock and put on the hoses and cables you already own? I have been wanting to get either one of these torches but I can not figure out how to order without it coming with hoses that I already have that came on the Dynasty.
- by Jakedaawg
- Tue May 02, 2017 6:25 am
- Forum: Welding Forum General Shop Talk
- Topic: Welding helmet for tight spaces
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2123
Welding helmet for tight spaces
So, I was under a pontoon boat yesterday. Not a lot of room. My helmet kept hitting on the underside of the boat while I was trying to fix a crack on the top of the 'toon. It got me thinking... Is there a mask that may take the lense out of a helmet? I could then wear a leather cap or bandana or som...
- by Jakedaawg
- Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:32 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: CK Torches
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1293
Re: CK Torches
Sorry if this is a hijack, just dis regard in that case... What is the advantage of that huge cup? I guess it would be for SS or Titanium but would there be an Aluminum advantage? Would you end up using more gas than a traditional lens? If it were to allow more stick out and greater visibility that ...
- by Jakedaawg
- Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:52 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: Lets talk china Tigs?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 6277
Re: Lets talk china Tigs?
My take: I don't think I would buy any new machine with the idea that I would alter the guts to improve it. I might do something like that in the case of a really inexpensive used machine, but I work on high power electrical/electronics stuff for a living. When faced with decisions like this I ask ...
- by Jakedaawg
- Thu Mar 30, 2017 11:58 pm
- Forum: Video Discussion
- Topic: Series on Tig Aluminum part 2
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1527
Re: Series on Tig Aluminum part 2
Hello Jody, Thanks for all the work you put into these....An idea for somthng that I have not noticed you talk about in a video yet would be starting, stopping and then restarting. For example, a joint with round tube where you have to stop and reposition. Some of these experts get their restarts to...
- by Jakedaawg
- Thu Mar 30, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
- Replies: 3253
- Views: 491861
Re: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
@5th Street Fab
I noticed in one of your pics an aluminum flange for an NPT plug. Is there a brand of flange or bung that you prefer? I am looking to source some to have in stock for adding drains to pontoons.
I noticed in one of your pics an aluminum flange for an NPT plug. Is there a brand of flange or bung that you prefer? I am looking to source some to have in stock for adding drains to pontoons.
- by Jakedaawg
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 5:51 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: Frustrations with vertical up aluminum TIG
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3329
Re: Frustrations with vertical up aluminum TIG
Must just be that we are michiganders.
- by Jakedaawg
- Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:55 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: Frustrations with vertical up aluminum TIG
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3329
Re: Frustrations with vertical up aluminum TIG
I am also learning the skills for aluminum (just an old fart hobby welder here) and I have not perfected walking the cup upward in vertical but do find a slight sweeping motion on a inside fillet helps me, as well as guiding my tig finger on backside of piece like Jody does. Your welds look fine to...
- by Jakedaawg
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 7:23 pm
- Forum: Video Discussion
- Topic: Pulsing between AC and DCEN
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2082
Re: Pulsing between AC and DCEN
Bump, anyone know the answer to my question above?
- by Jakedaawg
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 2:19 pm
- Forum: Video Discussion
- Topic: Pulsing between AC and DCEN
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2082
Re: Pulsing between AC and DCEN
Question: Is this advanced pulse what I would get if I bought the SD card upgrade for my Miller Dynasty 280 DX?
- by Jakedaawg
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 8:32 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
- Replies: 3253
- Views: 491861
Re: The what I welded today (/whenever) thread (pics please)
Just a little carbon steel, haven't been taking a ton of pics of stuff lately. In one of your pics I see a pair of gloves, do you like those? I have the same pair I think but had a hard time feeling the filler rod. I am just learning though. My "go to " gloves have been a pair of split de...
- by Jakedaawg
- Sat Dec 31, 2016 1:16 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3709
Re: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
On a side note.... I have the miller dynasty 280dx with the watercooled 20 series torch that came with it. I am going to buy a CK 20 series flex torch for it. I under stand that it will fit on the cables and hoses I already have. Is there an online retailer you all recommend? I have been searching w...
- by Jakedaawg
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 6:37 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3709
Re: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
Maybe I should not have jumped from .120 to. 063. I'll order some ~.080 and ~.100 alum sheet.
Listen guys, if I am gonna order aluminum I may as well order a marine pontoon grade. Would 5052 be a reasonable choice?
Listen guys, if I am gonna order aluminum I may as well order a marine pontoon grade. Would 5052 be a reasonable choice?
- by Jakedaawg
- Fri Dec 30, 2016 6:14 pm
- Forum: Tig Welding - Tig Welding Aluminum - Tig Welding Techniques - Aluminum Tig Welding
- Topic: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3709
Re: 1st tig weld, I think there is hope
Could whomever mentioned that butt welds on thinner stuff are easier please expand on their thoughts.I am try .063 5052 sheet butt welds and having a he'll of a time getting a puddle without key holes or the toes not wetting in. Going to switch to 1/16" fillers and tungsten.
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